Matching more than three moments with acyclic phase type distributions

Stochastic Models

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-194

  Horváth, András ^a   Telek, Miklós ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Acyclic phase type distribution; Moment matching

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

ACYCLIC PHASE TYPE DISTRIBUTION; MOMENT MATCHING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 34247592562     PISSN: 15326349     EISSN: 15324214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326340701300712     Document Type: Article

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